ArmInfo. As part of the implementation of agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh, Ankara sent 60 representatives of military personnel to Azerbaijan. This was announced on Tuesday, December 22, by Turkey's National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on the air of the NTV channel.
"Now 60 people from our staff are in Azerbaijan. All agreements on the construction of the center have been reached. Construction is ongoing. Our people will work together with the Russians," he said. Akar specified that the terms of their stay there will be discussed with the Russian side. On December 1, Moscow and Ankara completed negotiations on a joint center on Karabakh and signed an agreement on the procedure for the deployment and operation of a joint Russian-Turkish center to control the ceasefire and all hostilities in the region. The next day, the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced that the Turkish and Russian military would soon begin their duties at the joint center. On November 9, Azerbaijan and Armenia, with the mediation of Russia, signed an agreement on the cessation of hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from November 10. The document provides for the introduction of Russian peacekeepers into the region, the exchange of prisoners of war between the parties to the conflict, the transfer of a number of regions of the region by Yerevan to Baku, the return of refugees to NKR and the creation of a monitoring center.
The core of the peacekeeping contingent is made up of units of the 15th separate motorized rifle brigade of the Central Military District. Russian observation posts are set up along the line of contact in the NKR and along the Lachin corridor connecting Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The command of the peacekeeping operation is in Stepanakert.